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RESOLVING IMAGES - A TOOL FROM THE PATHWORK GUIDE LECTURES*

Some Steps for Resolving Images:

1. Become aware of the issues and problems: over several weeks make a list of the reoccurring frustrations, disappointments, painful situations that occur in your life. See if you can find some common denominators which might has a basis in an Image .

2. Identify Images:

  1. Put into concise words the misconceptions on which the images rest
  2. Make connections between the emotional defenses that support the misconceptions ie. some variation of withdrawal, aggression, submission.
  3. Identify the unmet needs of the child

3. Connect the image to childhood hurts and to present life situations/dynamics/ consequences. Make connections between the "then" and the "now".

4. Understand the damage Images do:

  1. Create fear, shame and separateness
  2. Keep pain and disappointment hidden, so it can not be worked through
  3. Keep us stuck in childish mindset and childish dualities where "my way" is good and pleasurable and thwarting of my will produces hate, rage, pain.
  4. Prevents us from receiving Divine support
  5. Unconscious mindsets block our conscious desire for fulfillment.

5. Strip current problem to get to basic issue - lack of love

  1. Find blame of others
  2. Feel anger/frustration/ anxiety
  3. Eventually find the hurt of not being loved
  4. Connect present and past hurt

6. Dissolve images:

  1. Articulate a true concept ie. what is the truth in this situation and regarding misconceptions held in the image
  2. Hold the true concept next to the misconception
  3. Choose truth and impress your soul substance

7. Resolve childhood hurt:

  1. Hold past and present painful feelings together
  2. Fully feel and release pain - let it go
  3. Forgive parents, perpetrators and self

8. Create life positively:

  1. Meditate and visualize a positive alternative
  2. Allow your soul substance to be impressed
  3. Become love instead of demanding it
  4. Embrace in yourself, and give to yourself, what you needed from your parents and or childhood situation.
  5. Allow the grace of spirit to penetrate the places that need healing around these issues; grace that you can now receive because you have taken the self-responsibility to do the work that was yours to do on this topic.

* Material summarized from Pathwork Lectures # 38, 39, 40, 41, 92, 93, 201
* For more information and to find copies of the lectures: www.pathwork.org
Prepared by: Madeline Dietrich
December 2007.